Peng Qinglan’s Road Home ( Part 3 )
WRIC’s Yao Cheng All photos by WRIC November 31，2010 Peng Qinglan’s Putian house was located in a village on the edge of the city. Of her adopted parents and seven siblings, most traveled to…
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WRIC’s Yao Cheng All photos by WRIC December 1, 2010 At 8:30pm, November 24, the crowd stood along both sides of Liuzhi Tequ Street. Among them were local residents and the Peng family and their friends who came from…
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Thoughts on Illicit Adoption
Source : Today Digest Translation : WRIC volunteer Alexandra Khoo Oct 20, 2010 WRIC Editor’s note：After the issue of the Fujian was unveiled by the Women’s Rights in China, it aroused the attention of the society and issued a voice against the feudal…
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Source :WRIC Translation : Alexandra Khoo Oct 20, 2010 Fujian is China’s reform frontier but it is also home to the “Child Bride Village”; a shocking, regretful yet long overlooked phenomenon that is incompatible with the province’s high civility. Fujian Law Society’s Research head…
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The Baby Under The Bridge
The temperature was over 30 Celsius on September 21st, 2010 in Bijie, Guizhou Province. As field workers for WRIC’s Rural girls assistance plan, my friend Mr. Han and I visited a local brick factory. We were looking for a couple who had spent 200,000 yuan (about $30,000) in medical expenses to cure their infertility. The Dings…
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Li Still In Hiding After Giving Birth
By WRIC Volunteer Li Yuanlong 09-09-2010 Miss Li went into hiding during her pregnancy. She gave birth in hiding. Could Li, the Bijie, Guizhou woman now live…
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Abandoned Baby from 18 Years Ago Admitted to University
By WRIC volunteers June, 2007 “The snow came early that winter when I first saw her. She was wrapped in a bamboo basket and there were ice blocks on top of her blankets.“ There is…
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WRIC Rural girls Assistance Program in Nanle, Henan
Training teacher Huili Chen Nanle County is a poor rural district. Under pressure of heavy fines for “illegal” childbirth, the abortion of girls is common. There was an urgent need to open the Baby Shower project in Nanle. On Sept. 23-24, 2010, our local director Chen and her assistant arrived in Nanle to distribute gift and aid. That…
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Source: BBC News OnlineAuthor: Pulsihed Time: 25 September 2010 Thirty years after the introduction of China’s one-child policy, the government is being urged to rethink its population controls. During the period that I grew up in China in the 1960s and 70s, Chinese families could have as many children as they liked. Many had four…
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The Double Persecution of Gu Guangyan: The Travails of a Chinese Woman Who Gave Birth to A Girl
By WRIC Volunteer Li Yanglong Gu’s husband wanted a son. He already had two daughters. He asked his wife to try one more time, illegally, to bear a son. She was determined to give the family a boy who could carry the family name forward. Gu’s first daughter was six, the second one four and…
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